Chapter 38

"Am I still talking to you?" Stephen asked. "Yes," Natasha replied. "Do strangers talk to each other?" "No." "How am I treating you like a stranger, then?" Natasha was stumped for a moment. Then, she collected herself and insisted, "Anyway... you've changed." "Fine, fine, I've changed. Abracadabra, I'm a wizard now!" Stephen waved his hand dismissively. "We've graduated high school. In two months, we'll be university students. We're no longer the carefree kids we used to be. Isn't it normal to change a bit as we grow up?" Natasha pouted and asked, "Stephen, what do I need to do to get us back to how we were before?" Stephen was about to tell her to go home and sleep it off when he heard Jerry's excited shout. He asked, "Zach, what's my dad yelling about?" "I think he's saying Harvard and Yale are fighting over you," Zachary replied. "That's impossible," Stephen commented, having a clear self-awareness. Only the top 30 in the state got that kind of treatment, and his actual a